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Many of you have heard of and/or tried our online program Curable, which is based on Dr. Sarno's methods. One of our primary goals in creating this app was to bring this approach to the forefront of the national conversation, and help make the mindbody approach that Dr. Sarno pioneered the norm rather than the exception.
Last week, we took an exciting step in that direction, and were featured on the front page of TechCrunch in a heartfelt piece written by a very reputable journalist. We weren't actually interviewed for this article, which is why he doesn't dive into much detail about the approach. However, he does stand firmly on its legitimacy, and uses other more 'familiar' terms to describe the gist of it.
This article alone does not explain TMS in full, but what we have seen so far is that it's piqued curiosity and started a real conversation about it. It's a fantastic "legitimizer" for the folks who quickly dismiss the approach as fringe or unproven. We are seeing a lot more open-minded folks reach out to us about this. It's also been a huge conversation starter with doctors who BELIEVE these principles, but have never heard of Dr. Sarno.
Here's an excerpt:
"The app is, appropriately, called Curable. Its treatment program is based on the (thoroughly scientifically grounded) notion that chronic pain tends to slowly rewire the brain to “perpetuate the feeling of pain” — and that this neurological sensitization to pain can be undone, in whole or in part, via mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy. Its founder and CEO, John Gribbin, fought lower back pain for fifteen years himself before overcoming it with this technique.
It may sound odd that cognitive techniques can overcome and eliminate real physical pain, but there is an sizable amount of hard science behind this, which Curable users are walked through. Lest you think this is a goofy fringe approach, the Mayo Clinic offers a similar multidisciplinary pain program, wherein “chronic pain, unlike the acute variety, [is] treated as a malfunction in perception, whether or not an ongoing physical cause [has] been identified” (7) … for $40,000 (not to mention an extended stay in Arizona, Florida or Minnesota). Curable, by contrast, is free at first, and ultimately charges all of $5 a month."
I don’t want to pretend that it will be a panacea for every chronic pain sufferer. It won’t. But I can tell you that in the two months since my wife started using it, she has gone from 18-20 migraine days a month to one or two. Yes, you read that correctly. She has resumed drinking wine, eating chocolate, running and lifting weights, napping, casually booking cross-country & transcontinental flights, and working long, strenuous attorney hours again. We have an appointment with her neurologist later this month … for a friendly dinner, because it doesn’t look like we’ll be needing his professional services much anytime soon."
Here's the full article:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/08/curing-the-incurable/ (Curing the incurable)
Please share with your networks if you feel inspired to do so
Last week, we took an exciting step in that direction, and were featured on the front page of TechCrunch in a heartfelt piece written by a very reputable journalist. We weren't actually interviewed for this article, which is why he doesn't dive into much detail about the approach. However, he does stand firmly on its legitimacy, and uses other more 'familiar' terms to describe the gist of it.
This article alone does not explain TMS in full, but what we have seen so far is that it's piqued curiosity and started a real conversation about it. It's a fantastic "legitimizer" for the folks who quickly dismiss the approach as fringe or unproven. We are seeing a lot more open-minded folks reach out to us about this. It's also been a huge conversation starter with doctors who BELIEVE these principles, but have never heard of Dr. Sarno.
Here's an excerpt:
"The app is, appropriately, called Curable. Its treatment program is based on the (thoroughly scientifically grounded) notion that chronic pain tends to slowly rewire the brain to “perpetuate the feeling of pain” — and that this neurological sensitization to pain can be undone, in whole or in part, via mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy. Its founder and CEO, John Gribbin, fought lower back pain for fifteen years himself before overcoming it with this technique.
It may sound odd that cognitive techniques can overcome and eliminate real physical pain, but there is an sizable amount of hard science behind this, which Curable users are walked through. Lest you think this is a goofy fringe approach, the Mayo Clinic offers a similar multidisciplinary pain program, wherein “chronic pain, unlike the acute variety, [is] treated as a malfunction in perception, whether or not an ongoing physical cause [has] been identified” (7) … for $40,000 (not to mention an extended stay in Arizona, Florida or Minnesota). Curable, by contrast, is free at first, and ultimately charges all of $5 a month."
I don’t want to pretend that it will be a panacea for every chronic pain sufferer. It won’t. But I can tell you that in the two months since my wife started using it, she has gone from 18-20 migraine days a month to one or two. Yes, you read that correctly. She has resumed drinking wine, eating chocolate, running and lifting weights, napping, casually booking cross-country & transcontinental flights, and working long, strenuous attorney hours again. We have an appointment with her neurologist later this month … for a friendly dinner, because it doesn’t look like we’ll be needing his professional services much anytime soon."
Here's the full article:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/08/curing-the-incurable/ (Curing the incurable)
Please share with your networks if you feel inspired to do so
